The Culture: Wizards Stabbed Vets In The Back & A Fren Gets A Thing Out There

Friend of the Retreat Gelantinous Cube made a thing.

I RELEASE A REVISED VERSION OF SEVEN WILLOWS

I made a mini-rpg last year for zinequest, the very first I actually *finished*. I've dedicated the past 4 months to revising this beauty. pic.twitter.com/wzRjrEnU67

— GelatinousRube (@RubeJelly) March 5, 2024

You'll find it for sale at DriveThruRPG.

And, in case you missed it, Margaret Weis shat all over Wizards of the Coast.

Krynn is right after the Realms in overall popularity for Official Settings, and yet that is not enough for Wizards to give it any respect.

This is what awaits all Official Settings for The Only Game That Matters.

You Conventional Play Cargo Cultists had better admit to the evidence before your eyes that you have been stabbed in the back.

This is from a video on the history of D&D, made by WOTC/Hasbro, who currently owns it. I've never met anybody that talked like this.

You have to wonder why they bought this property if they found it so morally objectionable pic.twitter.com/gyJ2JetNoA

— stricture (@bog_beef) March 8, 2024

It's a lot easier to change a thing into something that it is not when you move it from one medium to another. Remember Starship Troopers? The book is not at all like the movie, and Verhoven successfully changed the defintion of the brand by changing it to a more popular medium. Same playbook.

It's not just chasing profits. It's changing definitions.

Wizards controls The Only Game That Matters. Therefore Wizards controls Conventional Play. If they change the definition of the hobby to that of a videogame exclusive of all else (and they have the media presence to do that), something that is greatly enhanced by making tabletop Low Status and Criminal Adjacent (which is what this defamation is about), then good luck getting people to play your Also-Rans and Never-Weres after 2030.

You Cargo Cultists are about to get screwed good and hard, and you're still acting like nothing is wrong.